This year’s Golden Spike Award went to Nate Beeler, editorial cartoonist for the Washington Examiner. The Golden Spike is an award given out during the annual AAEC convention to recognize a worthy cartoon that was rejected by an otherwise timid editor. Over on Daryl Cagle’s blog, he’s posted a copy of the toon – which […]
Norm Feuti, the creator of Retail, has launched a web site and blog of his own. A while back he launched a blog called Cooper’s Retail Blog which is written in the voice of his character, Cooper. With his own blog, Norm is free to blog in his own voice. Looks like he started it […]
uClick has announced that Jeff Smith’s Bone character is going to be available on mobile phones. Launched on July 26th, new chapters are added weekly.
In a confusing story on that does little to explain who’s who, the Times-Republican has written about a cartoon that was published in an in-house paper at the Iowa Veterans Home that has caused one staffer to be fired and the entire paper’s content to be reviewed by an editorial board for approval. No mention […]
Received an email from Clarion-Ledger editorial cartoonist Marshall Ramsey who reported in on his live blogging experiment of last nights election results there in Mississippi. He published 32 posts and 12 cartoons in that one night. From his email: I was exhausted when I got home at 1 a.m., but was very energized this morning […]
Back in June, I wrote about Randall Vanfossen’s efforts to establish a monthly mailing of comics strips through a subscription model. He has announced that he was not able to garner enough subscriptions to make the publication happen. I knew a subscription drive was a long shot, but when I made the decision to go […]
Slylock Fox and Comics for Kids creator Bob Weber Jr. writes in to tell us that his feature is turning 20 years old this year and can now be seen in the Sunday L.A. Times. Congratulations Bob.
Over on Dilbert creator Scott Adam’s blog, he’s revealed that he’s helping an unknown cartoonist, Scott Meyer, take his creation Basic Instructions and turn it into syndication material.From his blog: Over the course of the next few months I offered him some tips for getting syndicated in newspapers. It dawned on me that my blog […]
With all the attention now on Funky Winkerbean’s Lisa Moore’s impending death, the A.V. Club looks back at the 12 most memorable comic strip deaths which include: Farley (For Better Or For Worse), Dick Davenport (Doonesbury), Dead bird (Calvin & Hobbes), Grandpa (The Family Circus), Anonymous corpse (Kudzu), Daddy Warbucks (Little Orphan Annie), John Darling […]
With Kudzu ending at the end of this month, papers are focusing on the funnies. Here’s a round up of who’s in and out this week.The Daily Herald (Everett WA) has replaced One Big Happy with Secret Asian Man and despite protests will stick with Tak Toyoshima’s feature because: A new comic needs time to […]
E&P is reporting two new book collections to hit the book stores next month. Alternative Zits is the latest Zits collection by Jim Borgman and Jerry Scott. Everything I Need to Know I Learned on Jerry Springer is the latest Close to Home collection by John McPherson.
According to E&P, Drew Rougier-Chapman has announced a cartooning contest to promote “Party Toons” – a weekly satire show he’s been developing for PBS to showcase editorial cartoons in a roundtable discussion. “I am offering $500 for the cartoon, either animated or in print, that best expresses why editorial cartoons are so vital to democracy […]
In what often seems to be a story to check off of the to-do list every 4 to 8 years (depending on how many terms the current president is fulfilling), the first of many ‘how will editorial cartoonists draw the next president’ has now been filed – The Miami Herald looks at how editorial cartoonists […]
Editorial cartoonist Ed Hall has posted a video on YouTube demonstrating how he develops a drawing for an editorial cartoon.
Mark Fiore – one of the first editorial cartoonists to go completely into editorial cartoon animation markfiore.com or now uclick.com.